Our IST teacher says the LD evaluation can take 60 school days, and if the child or the teacher isn’t in school those don’t count. Could this be right? None of the laws I’ve read say 60 school days!
Re: 60 day law means 60 school days???
I don’t think it means when a teacher or kid is out for a personal reason, it is school work days, so the holidays wouldn’t count.I am not sure about teacher inservice days.
Re: 60 day law means 60 school days???
Our state- or at least the districts I work in- uses 60 calendar days… I know some places use 60 school days but not to count vacations etc seems like it would stretch it out an awfully long time. And Socks is right- re-evals need to be done by the anniversary date.
45 days was the time limit before IDEA was reauthorized- and it was changed because it is just too hard to meet. Many times you can’t even get an evaluator scheduled within that time- our districts also hire out ALL the evals- so you are stuck. My own evaluation calendar is always booked at least 5-6 weeks in advance. So if you call me today to schedule a testing- we are looking at the middle of December at least. This is not uncommon and is one of the reasons fdor the change in time limit. With the increase in the number of evaluations it was simply not feasible to insist on 45 days.
Robin
It depends on your state rules. It will also depend on whether this is an inital eval or a reeval. If it is a re-eval they have until the anniversary date to do it. 60 days seems a long time,usually states adopt a 45 day timeline. And yes,they can state school days,which also don’t include holidays,teacher works days etc.